James Duffield Harding
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James Duffield Harding (1798 – 4 December 1863) was a British
Life
Harding was born at Deptford in 1798, the son of a drawing-master who had been a pupil of Paul Sandby. He was taught perspective by his father and had lessons from Samuel Prout.[1] At the age of thirteen he exhibited two drawings of buildings in the style of Prout at the Royal Academy.[1]
He was apprenticed to the engraver
From an early on in his career Harding was a successful and popular teacher. When lithography became popular in Britain, he quickly adopted it as a means of reproducing good examples for the use of pupils and students. His first productions were drawing-books, consisting of pencil sketches and studies of trees; they were printed in tints with two stones, allowing the reproduction of more elaborate drawings. His Sketches at Home and Abroad, a series of fifty plates using this method, was published in 1836. In 1841 he published The Park and the Forest, a set of sketches drawn on the stone with a brush instead of the crayon, a technique of his own invention which he called "lithotint". His other lithographic works included A Series of Subjects from the Works of R. P. Bonington (1829–30); Recollections of India (1847, from drawings by C. S. Hardinge) and Picturesque Selections (1861).[1]
In 1830, Harding exhibited a series of Italian views sketched on papers of various colours and textures, the style of which was widely imitated.
Harding was a prolific author of educational manuals, and his Lessons on Art, Guide and Companion to Lessons on Art, Elementary Art, or the Use of the Chalk and Lead Pencil advocated and explained, and The Principles and Practice of Art, were widely used both in Britain and abroad.[1] His Drawing Models and Their Uses (1854) describes the use of a range of solid forms which he prepared and marketed.[4]
He was described by
He died at
Bibliography and references
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j O'Donoghue, Freeman Marius (1885–1900). "Harding, James Duffield". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ISBN 9780198600251.
- ISBN 1-85437-295-5.
- ^ a b Redgrave, Gilbert R. (1892). A History of Water Colour Painting in England. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. p. 197.
Sources
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Harding, James Duffield". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 336–7.
- New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
External links
- J D Harding online (ArtCyclopedia – 10 October 2010)
- J D Harding's Illustrations (Victorian Web – 10 October 2010)
- Paintings by J D Harding (Bridgeman Art Library)
- Works by J. D. Harding at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about James Duffield Harding at Internet Archive
- The Church at Polignac., engraved by Thomas Higham for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837 with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
- Hurdwar—The Gate of Vishnoo., engraved by Frederick James Havell with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.